Improvement in bed-bottoms



UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY T. SMITE, OF wAsHINeroN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,278, dated May 28,1872.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. SMITH, of the city of Washington, Districtof Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bed-Bottoms;and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to theletters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification,in which- Figure 1 represents a top view of the bedstead with theimproved bottom. nFig. 2 represents one end of the bedstead with theupright thumb-screw plates for adjusting or tightening the wire bottom.Fig. 3 are the wires with the flat end plates, the plate being alsoshown at Fig. 4.

The nature of my improvement and invention consists in riveting two endsof a wire to a plate, so as to form a double wire with square instead ofround ends, the wires resting in straight grooves in the cross-pieces atthe head and foot of the bedstead, and being adjusted or tightened byscrews atthe head-rail of the bedstead. The object is to easily' orquickly repair the bed-bottom in case one of the wires should be broken.

A represents the bedstead; B B, the crosspieces'of the bed-bottom, withstraight grooves 0 cut in for the wires D D to rest in. E E are smallmetallic plates, to which the ends of wires D D are riveted. The platesE rest against flat plates F that are fastened to the outer sides of thecross-pieces or strainingbar's B B. G G are longitudinal stretchers tosupport the bed-bottom. H H are metallic clips, by which thestraining-bars B: can be adjusted by screws 01' plates H withthumbscrewsJ J.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, EDM. F. BROWN.

